Bus to Dunedin
St Kilda
When we climbed on our bus to Dunedin after saying our goodbyes to Sue, we realized there were no two seats free that were together, so we each picked a seat semi close to one another near the back of the bus.
I had chosen the empty seat beside a guy named Mike, who I later began talking with after the bus driver came on the speaker and began randomly telling us the balloon story which I think was supposed to be a joke. After he had finished talking Mike and I were laughing about it and trying to figure out what the point to the story was.
After that Mike and I continued talking, finding out he was travelling solo from Idaho, during his off season from trail maintenance along the Centennial Trail.
After a quick rest stop as Lauren and I were getting back on the bus she had asked me for a few of the chocolates that Sue and Bruce had given us, so when I got back to my seat I dug them out. Since we had figured out that neither of us liked the Turkish delight ones so I figured I would dig them all out and give them away. This of course was when Mike got back on the bus and make a joke about it being snack time, as I sat there with a pile of chocolate bars on my lap. Since we had so many, I ended up giving him the Turkish delight one along with another one.
When we got to Dunedin, Mike continued on and Lauren and I got off downtown. We quickly grabbed some groceries and found the bus we needed to get out to St Kilda holiday park. Once we were all set up we took a walk across the field and up over the sand dunes onto the beach. The waves were crashing in, with a few swimmers, surfers and paddlers fighting against them. We walked up and down the beach soaking our feet in the cold water. As I was walking up the beach I began making different markings in the sand, little curves by dragging my toes a little here and there.
On the way back I had stopped in a couple spots to quickly draw a picture in the sand using only my feet. I could of easily spent hours drawing in the sand, digging my toes in and drawing line after line. I ended up drawing three pictures, one of a wave, one of the landscape at the end of the beach and one of a mountain range.
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